with absorbine pro, pain won t hold you back from your passions. it s the only solution with two max-strength anesthetics to deliver the strongest numbing pain relief available. so, do your thing like a pro, pain-free. absorbine pro. that does it for me tonight. tonight. much appreciated. thanks to you at home. really happy to have you here. we have an interesting show for you tonight. particularly glad you re here for it. we re going to start a ways back as we sometimes do. when allied soldiers came ashore on the coast of france on the beaches of normandy for the d-day invasion, they opened up a new western front against the nazis in europe. and that of course was a shock to the germans. the operation overlord, the d-day invasion, it relied on the element of surprise. and the germans really were shocked. they had been occupying france for four years at that point. they the installed a collaborationist regime that they assembled from pro-fascist and pro-nazi forces inside f
thank you for watching, while we were just talking about this summer s o olympics it is also worth noting that just minutes from now we will officially be two years out from the fifa world cup which will take place here in the u.s. after 30 years and you re in luck. get your count down clock started now. and on that note i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i ll see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. we have an interesting show for you tonight. i m particularly glad you re here for us. we re going to start a ways back as we sometimes do. when allied soldiers came ashore on the coast of france on the beaches of normandy for the d day invasion. they opened up new western front against the nazis in europe. and that of course was a shock to the germans right. this, the operation overlore, the d day invasion it relied on the element
human in disguise? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. less than 24 hours from now and for the third time in under four months, former president donald trump will appear in court as a criminal defendant. this for his arraignment in washington on federal charges related to his alleged actions to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. the grand jury indictment handed up late yesterday alleging the ex-president s actions amounted to a conspiracy to defraud the united states to obstruct and impede the january 6th congressional proceedings where the votes were tallied and certified and a conspiracy against the right to vote. all of it according to special counsel jack smith built on destabilizing lies about election fraud. tonight, we are learning more about six unindicted and unnamed co-conspirators in the case, and mr. trump denying any wrongdoing. his legal team tipping their hand as to how
a key piece of smith s case, the pressure trump put on his vice president, mike pence, including a call on christmas day asking mr. pence not to certify the results. mr. trump allegedly telling pence, quote, you re too honest. how pence reacted today. our team in washington and our legal analysts standing by. also tonight, the scare on capitol hill. staffers running out of the senate office building after reports of an active shooter. police later giving the all-clear. what happened? the gunman who killed 11 people at a pittsburgh synagogue sentenced to death for the worst anti-semitic attack in u.s. history. the disturbing images, a cinder block cell in an oregon home. the fbi says a kidnapped woman was kept inside but made a dramatic escape. tonight the plea to the public for help. are there more victims? and visitors flocking to a zoo in china after this video exploded on social media. is that a bear or a
during a june lunch between mr. obama and mr. biden. two sources familiar with the discussion tell us mr. obama vowed to help president biden win re-election, but also stressed the continuing strength of former president trump s base. kristen welker, thank you. all right, joining me now is chuck rosenberg. he s a former federal prosecutor and an nbc news legal analyst. chuck, good to see you. there s a couple themes coming from the defense in this case. one is that there was no intent, that mr. trump was simply relying on the advice of counsel. what do you make of that argument? well, advice of counsel is a real defense. you see it from time to time, but for mr. trump to rely on it, he would have had to have been completely candid with his lawyer and relied on his lawyer s advice in good faith. candor and good faith could prove to be stumbling blocks for mr. trump here. and what about the other theme that they re pushing, which is that it s a matter of free speech, that the pre